The Independents have the week off, so we’re jumping in the not do wayback machine to revisit a past episode of GrokTALK! on property taxes. A movement is rising to ban them, which is great, but what do we replace them with (and sadly, it can’t be nothing)? Originally publised on Oct 27, 2025 Speakers’ ... Read more

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The holiday shopping season suggests that people have a good feeling about the direction of the US economy, and the Q3 data confirms it. Even before the Christmas shopping season, the economy grew at an impressive 4.3%. Gross domestic product is a broad measure of the goods and services produced across the economy. Economists had ... Read more

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A reader chimed in after one of my recent articles. I said, chiming in to be kind. He really dropped the hammer on me for being too vague in my criticism of the Democratic Party. He condemned me for lacking specifics and called me a hack. Well, I looked past my archive of over 1,800 ... Read more

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Welcome to your holiday hangover day. We hope you gave as good as you got, and whether you did or not, felt the spirit of the holiday. And just in case you feel like you can manage to be the recipient of a bit more giving, we’ve got memes for you. . . . . ... Read more

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The time for “polite inquiries” is officially over.  For five years, the bureaucratic fortress of Fulton County, Georgia, has stonewalled every attempt to look under the hood of the 2020 election.  They hid behind state seals, played legal shell games with ballot locations, and treated public record requests like personal insults.  But as of December 2025, the game ... Read more

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The Northern Grafton County Republican Committee will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday,January 13, 2026, at the Littleton Senior Center located at 77 Riverglenn Lane, Littleton, NH.  Refreshments and socializing will be at 6:00 PM, and the meeting will begin at 6:30 PM.  Ian Underwood will be the guest speaker, and the title of his topic ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, Politico says the war on Christmas is some far-left illusion, but we know it’s not. It’s a war on Christmas and Christians. Links: Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want ... Read more

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What if I were to tell you that you can take a Somali out of tribal Somalia, but you can’t take tribal Somalia out of the Somali? What I’m about to tell you should infuriate you. American taxpayers have been sending billions of dollars to Somalia’s Islamic Jihadist group, Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujāhideen, simply known as ... Read more

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We think of thieves as conducting their work when no one is looking, such as breaking into a house while the owners are away. But the most successful thieves have done their stealing in plain sight, on a grand scale, while the owners were home and often with their tacit approval, though with sleights of ... Read more

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This week, on Right Side Up, “Safe Injection Sites”, Harm Reduction?, the Somali flag at school? And the Constitution.” Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com Please like, ... Read more

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The title is a bit more provocative than the content warrants, but I chose it because it feels like a serial, and this is just one example. Our globalist progressive overlords, in their shortsighted desire to replace the voters they have with ones they think will be more to their liking, have invited – as ... Read more

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I believe it was Seymour Papert who said that often the best way to think about something is to think about something else instead.  Given how quickly and completely people’s brains tend to shut down when thinking about education, https://granitegrok.com/new-england/nh/2025/06/feeling-instead-of-thinking-about-education he may be especially right for that particular subject.  Let’s look at a couple of ... Read more

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I spoke at Vermont’s annual Liberty Food Fest on December 12 regarding the benefits of grass-fed over grain-fed beef. To spice it up a bit and keep my audience’s attention, I repurposed a nursery rhyme for the occasion. (I even sang it!) Here are the lyrics of my 2025 version of the classic children’s rhyme: ... Read more

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We are well into the morning on Christmas Day. Presents opened, coffee or hot chocolate copiously consumed, joy, etc, and I wanted to thank you for the gift of your time and attention. Many of you read GraniteGrok every day. You share the content, praise the authors, and use emails and comments to share your ... Read more

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Merry Christmas, and today, on the morning update, a story that moved me and that I had to share on this very special day. Link Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. ... Read more

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Leftist revolutionaries have long been in the habit of reworking the calendar so as to make it easier to force the population into new habits and new ways of life better suited to the revolutionaries themselves. The French revolutionaries famously abolished the usual calendar, replacing it with a ten-day week system with three weeks in each month. ... Read more

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In this installment of Granite Discourse, the guest is Grok Contributor Bronwyn Sims. Bronwyn Sims is the NH State Chapter Leader for the Walk Away movement. An organization of former Democrats that encourages voters to walk away from the Democrat Party. She is a volunteer for the NH State GOP, Cheshire County Republican Women’s group, ... Read more

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There is no denying that what happened at Brown University on December 13th was a tragedy. Two days later, the alleged shooter killed former classmate Nuno F.G. Loureiro, after which he went to a storage shed in Salem, New Hampshire, and committed suicide. That’s the official story given to the press and the public, over ... Read more

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In the past, medical judgment was underpinned by three fundamental pillars: honest observation, open debate, and the humility to acknowledge our limitations in knowledge. While these principles still thrive in the day-to-day interactions within clinics and ICU corridors, they have been increasingly overshadowed online by a chaotic environment that often prioritizes sensationalism over substance. Social ... Read more

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It’s Christmas Eve, so we’d like to wish you a Memey Christmas. To celebrate, we’ve got memes, not necessarily Christmas memes, because I didn’t get many, but I have a few, and the other memes will get you through. And make sure yo scroll to the end for something…different! . . . . . . ... Read more

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